Enigma novel Chapter 45

As Zeno dragged me to the pack’s houses, I jerked my hand out of his, taking advantage of his distraction. He looked at me shocked. Did he expect me to do whatever he wants?

“What happened?” He asked bewildered.

“Nothing much. Just your highness holding my hand without permission.” I sneered.

“Why can’t I hold your hand?”

He looked at me like he was doing some complex calculations for a space ship.

“Oh let me think.” I started rubbing my jaw like I was thinking really hard. “You, my bully, is holding my hand like we are friends. Isn’t that a dream come true? Why wouldn’t I want the person who made my life a living hell, act like everything is just peachy? I mean that will exempt me from further torture. I do have to be careful now or I would fall into a fall pretense and you would probably try to hurt me again. Can’t be more careful these days, can we now?”

The sarcasm dripping from my tone was so sharp that Zeno flinched at every word I said. I gave him my best smile in return. He looked… ashamed? Now that’s something new on him.

“Look I am sorry for what I did to you all these years.” I raised my eyebrows at him. “It’s just… you had so much control over my emotions to the point that I absolutely hated it. You made me feel different but you never gave me even a look. You didn’t even know what you were doing to me. Now I know that you were in some sort of distress but my seven year old mind thought that you had an attitude and weren’t giving me any attention. I thought that you didn’t even knew that I existed. I wanted to make you look at me. Know about me. Be aware of my presence but you never even looked in my general direction.”

He glared at me like it was my fault that I didn’t know he existed at that time. I had just lost my family. What did he expect me to do? Go on play dates with him. I didn’t even had met him before I moved in with mom and dad.

“I thought you were full of yourself so I did what I thought was right at the time. I made you a social pariah so you will only pay attention to me but you still didn’t even make an effort for it. Then I started bullying you and I got what I had wanted all that time.”